兌 → 豐
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Line 2
九二 孚兌吉。悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Sincere joyousness. Good fortune. Remorse disappears.
Line 3
六三 來兌凶。
Six in the third place means: Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
後時失利，不得所欲。
After the time, losing advantage; not obtaining what was desired.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes meet thunder and fire — Abundance, the hexagram of fullness at its zenith. Yet the verse delivers only a terse lament: the moment has passed, profit is lost, and one cannot obtain what is desired. Abundance's danger is precisely this: the peak is also the beginning of decline. From The Joyous to Abundance, the verse captures the instant after the summit, when fullness tips into diminishment. Thunder and lightning together illuminate the world completely — but only for a flash. Those who arrive too late find the marketplace already closed. Abundance rewards only those present at the exact moment; a heartbeat's delay turns plenty to nothing.
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